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Trentaquattro anni dopo aver inciso "I Don't Want A Lover" e aver raggiunto le vette della classifica in molti paesi, i Texas, una delle band più amate in UK, hanno continuato a produrre dieci album in studio, vendendo oltre 40 milioni di dischi in tutto il mondo. Oggi annunciano una speciale raccolta in 2LP e 2CD The Very Best Of 1989 - 2023 in uscita il 16 giugno su [PIAS] Recordings. Si esibiranno inoltre sul Pyramid Stage al Glastonbury Festival di quest'anno.
I Texas sono nati nel 1986 in Scozia è hanno subito attirato l’attenzione del pubblico e della critica con il loro singolo di debutto, "I don't want a lover" tratto dall’album SOUTHSIDE, che ha venduto tre milioni di copie. I successivi MOTHERS HEAVEN (1991) e RICKS ROAD (1993), non avranno lo stesso riscontro. Nel 1997 è la volta del singolo "Say what you want", che si rivela essere il brano del gruppo più conosciuto; esce così WHITE ON BLONDE dello stesso anno. Nel 1999 viene realizzato THE HUSH, quinto album della band; da esso vengono tratti alcuni singoli di grande successo, come “In our lifetime” e “Summer son”. Segue nel 2000 un greatest hits.
Texas - The Very Best Of 1989-2023 è un vero e proprio contenitore di 24 diamanti musicali ricavati da una brillante carriera, tra cui due nuove tracce "Keep On Talking" e il nuovo singolo "After All"
LA TRACKLIST
Say What You Want
Black Eyed Boy
Inner Smile
Mr Haze
Halo
I Don’t Want A Lover
Summer Son
Keep On Talking
The Conversation
In Our Lifetime
In Demand
Put Your Arms Around Me
Let’s Work It Out
When We Are Together
Hi
Say What You Want (All Day Everyday) feat. Wu-Tang Clan
Tired Of Being Alone
Start A Family feat. Alan Rickman
So Called Friend
Everyday Now
Insane
After All
Sleep feat. Paul Buchanan
24. So In Love With You
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There’s the one with The Wu-Tang Clan. The five that were Top 10 singles from one album. The one with Alan Rickman in the video. The one that was an inspired Al Green cover. The two written with diverse titans of American music, Dallas Austin and Gregg Alexander. The one that was remixed by Giorgio Moroder. The une that helped give them their first French Number One album. The segued pair that, according to the woman at the front, makes their live audiences go “absolutely fuckin’ apeshit”. The one with the video directed by Peter Kay. The other one with Wu-Tang Clan. The one that gave them, straight out of the gate, a Top 10 single with their first ever release. The club banger with a killer Donna Summer sample. And the one that ended up the theme song to a top-rating American sitcom…
Texas - The Very Best Of 1989-2023 has all of the above, and more. 24 diamonds from a glittering career, including two brand new tracks ‘Keep On Talking’ & new single ‘After All’.
A nailed-on singalong, ‘After All’ is a song so stomping that the video, directed by Lewis Knaggs, features Sharleen deliver a stella performance, unleashing her inner Dave Grohl as she takes up drumming duties. Watch the video HERE.
Then there’s ‘Keep On Talking’, a foot-shuffling cover of the 1965 Northern Soul deep-cut Keep On Talking, written by Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham – and produced by Oldham in Muscle Shoals.
There’s more screen star power sprinkled across Texas’s back catalogue as represented in The Very Best Of 1989-2023. The video for ‘In Demand’ features Spiteri’s dear friend, the late, lamented actor Alan Rickman. As for the video for ‘Sleep’, the final single from 2005’s Red Book (and another Top 10), it was made by Peter Kay after the comic and Spiteri bonded at the Live 8 all-star concert in Edinburgh.
“We did it in the club that Phoenix Nights was shot in.” Sharleen explains. “And Peter scripted, directed, starred, edited, everything – he did everything on that video on his own. He was phenomenal. A friend for life.” And when Spiteri’s duet partner on that beautiful song, legendary (and legendarily selective) Blue Nile singer Paul Buchanan had opted not to appear in the video, Kay’s a pretty good stand-in, right?
Meanwhile, across all their albums, Texas were reliably killing it in mainland Europe. Jump On Board (2017) was a chart-topping triumph in France, its ascent aided by the snake-hipped funk of Let’s Work It Out, “which literally you couldn't get off the radio in France”. But, again, what an afterlife. Now, when they perform that song live, complete with Spiteri doing the video’s “stupid dance” (her words, not ours), they go straight into ace Hi cut Mr Haze. That dancefloor classic is rocket-powered by deft deployment of a sample of Donna Summer’s Love's Unkind..
And all those, of course, are just some of the highlights studded across this 24-track compilation.
Finally, then: as Sharleen Spiteri looks back over these tracks of her years, what’s the overall sensation? Satisfaction of a job well done? The best is yet to come?
“No’ bad for a hairdresser fae Glasgow!” she says, an old joke but still a good one (and a true one). “But I gotta be honest: I still feel like I'm really close to the beginning. And the energy and the vibe between us all – as a band I don't think we've ever been happier, and I don't think we've ever been tighter. And I don't think we've ever been more definite about who we are.”
Who are they? They are Texas, and they make hits.
Texas - The Very Best Of 1989 – 2023 tracklisting
Say What You Want
Black Eyed Boy
Inner Smile
Mr Haze
Halo
I Don’t Want A Lover
Summer Son
Keep On Talking
The Conversation
In Our Lifetime
In Demand
Put Your Arms Around Me
Let’s Work It Out
When We Are Together
Hi
Say What You Want (All Day Everyday) feat. Wu-Tang Clan
Tired Of Being Alone
Start A Family feat. Alan Rickman
So Called Friend
Everyday Now
Insane
After All
Sleep feat. Paul Buchanan
24. So In Love With You
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